Being lectured by a woman physicist can benefit students' performance, motivation, and engagement with physics. However, due to the severe underrepresentation of women physics faculty, these instances may be scarce. Through semistructured interviews with seven women physics lecturers, we used expectancy-value theory to understand the situative…

A mounting body of evidence has shown that student-centered instructional practices are more effective than traditional teacher-centered methodologies in Undergraduate STEM courses. Several studies have shown the effectiveness of student-centered pedagogies through increases in student performance, retention, and higher achievement by…

Teaching by night and reflecting on a subject by day is the way that Salman Khan sees education evolving in the age of online lectures. Khan believes he is onto something in what he styles the "flipped classroom." In Khan's view, there is no need for students to be divided into grades by age. Instead, they should learn at their own pace, moving on…

This article presents an analysis of a videotaped lecture from a secondary school science classroom. The students in this class had drafted science journalism articles and submitted them for professional editorial review and possible publication in a science newsmagazine for a teenage audience. Before allowing her students to see the editorial…

A method of teaching is described that requires students to choose an area of course content relating to their own interests and study, expand on it, and present the results to the class. The results of its application in two courses, one in the humanities and one in the sciences, are discussed. (MSE)

Describes PODIUM, an educational software application that serves as a user interface to IBM's multimedia hardware. Faculty lecture outlines using IBM's InfoWindow and Audio Visual Connection (AVC) are explained for the fields of science, mathematics, music, and art, and a facility at the University of Delaware for using multimedia is described.…